Re: Renderman (Answer: how to display test)

Article View: comp.sys.next.programmer

Article #1276

Back to comp.sys.next.programmer Previous Next

#1276

From: William Shipley
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 13:13

19 lines
1492 bytes

Charles G. Bennett writes:
> I thought I was finally getting comfortabe with Renderman, until
> I decided to display some text.    Just how does one get Renderman
> to produce a letter.   The HARD way?   Gosh, I hope that I don't have
> to model every letter...  In the book "Renderman Companion" the author 
> really blows buy how text "texture maps" are created.   Kinda like the
> old Math professor's  "assuming" that a text map exists, such that....

You do it the hard way.  The darn hard way.  Luckily, I suspect the modeling  
apps that come out will have this feature built in.  Unluckily, I suspect many  
of them will get it wrong by making geometric approximations of PostScript  
letters, rather than true curves.

Apparently an older version of RenderMan supported text, but that is no more.   
I've got some code that translates PostScript fonts into RenderMan true curved  
objects, but I'm not real keen on giving it away when I can sell it.  (Sorry.)

-William Shipley
The Omni Group

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1992Aug22.131355.11573@u.washington.edu>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!news

References: <1992Aug20.171232.1600@count0.uucp>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!news
From: wjs@blorf.cpac.washington.edu (William Shipley)
Subject: Re: Renderman (Answer: how to display test)
Message-ID: <1992Aug22.131355.11573@u.washington.edu>
Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: University of Washington
References: <1992Aug20.171232.1600@count0.uucp>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 13:13:55 GMT
Lines: 19

Reply to Parent Message